House Carpenter-Tony Rice

[ti:House Carpenter] [ar:Tony Rice] [al:Church Street Blues] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]House Carpenter (木匠) - Tony Rice [00:12.13]Well met well met said an old true love [00:17.05] [00:18.13]Well met well met said he [00:22.86]I'm just returning from the salt salt sea [00:27.10]And it's all for the love of thee [00:31.44] [00:34.30]Come in come in my own true love [00:39.22] [00:40.14]And have a sit over of me [00:44.69]It's been three fourths of a long long year [00:49.14]Since together we have been [00:53.50] [00:56.09]I can't come in and I can't sit down [01:01.00] [01:02.22]For I'm only a moment's times [01:06.75]They say you're married to a house carpenter [01:11.11]And your heart will never be mine [01:15.32] [01:18.42]Well I could have married the king's daughter fair [01:23.24] [01:24.13]And she would have married me [01:28.99]But I have forsaken her crowns of gold [01:33.26]And it's all for the love of thee [01:37.75] [01:50.06]Now will you forsaken your house carpenter [01:55.55] [01:56.29]And go along with me [02:00.95]I'll take you to where the grass grows green [02:05.17]On the banks of the deep blue sea [02:09.87] [02:12.28]Then she pickd up her darling little babe [02:17.53] [02:18.40]And kisses she gave it three [02:22.67]Saying stay right here my darling little babe [02:27.48]And keep your papa company [02:31.64] [02:34.55]They had not been on the ship two weeks [02:39.50] [02:40.24]I'm sure it was not three [02:44.82]'Til his true love began to weep and mourn [02:49.46]And she wept most bitterly [02:53.90] [02:56.40]Saying are you weeping for my silver and my gold [03:01.62] [03:02.29]Saying are you weeping for my store [03:06.83]Or are you weeping for that house carpenter [03:11.33]Whose face you'll never see nomore [03:15.67] [03:28.33]A curse a curse to the sailor she cried [03:33.17] [03:34.14]A curse a curse she swore [03:38.65]You've robbed me of my sweet little babe [03:43.25]That I shall never see no more [03:46.99] [03:49.92]They had not been on the ship three weeks [03:55.03] [03:55.68]I'm sure it was not four [04:00.06]'Til there came a leak in the bottom of the ships [04:04.63]And it sink in for to rise no more